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John McGreevey (writer)
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Original Air Date:
17 November 1976
(Season 26, Episode 1)
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In 1926, famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared for six weeks. When she surfaced, she...
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Once-prestigious television movie now looks a bit under-nourished...
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(Episode Cast overview, first billed only)| Faye Dunaway | ... | Sister Aimee Semple McPherson | |
| Bette Davis | ... | Minnie Kennedy | |
| James Sloyan | ... | Dist. Atty. Asa Keyes | |
| James Woods | ... | Asst. Disty. Atty. Joseph Ryan | |
| John Lehne | ... | Capt. Cline | |
| Lelia Goldoni | ... | Emma Shaffer | |
| Severn Darden | ... | S.I. Gilbert | |
| William Jordan | ... | Kenneth Ormiston | |
| Sandy Ward | ... | Judge Blake | |
| Barry Brown | ... | Wallace Moore | |
| Irby Smith | ... | Benedict | |
| Hartley Silver | ... | Clerk | |
| Rena Andrews | |||
| Lucian Benrier | |||
| Paul Feliz |
Series Cast
These people are regular cast members. Were they in this episode?| David Winters | ... | Jacques | |
| Selena Royle | ... | Cast Member 1951-1952 |
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100 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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In an interview published in the New York Times on 20 December 1993, director Anthony Harvey said that during filming of this movie, Bette Davis "absolutely took a dislike to Faye Dunaway... I would line them up for a two-shot," he said, "then look through the camera, and I couldn't see Bette." Each time, Davis had inched her chair away to evade a tete-a-tete with the younger Dunaway.
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Version of Aimee Semple McPherson (2006)
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A bigger budget and an expanded narrative might have made "The Disappearance of Aimee" a dandy theatrical mystery. In 1926, Protestant female minister--and popular radio evangelist--Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from the waters off a Southern California beach and remained missing for just over a month. She later turned up in Douglas, Arizona telling a wild story about being kidnapped for a $500,000 ransom. Because two men drowned in the ocean while searching for McPherson's body, an unstoppable prosecutor called her before the court, believing she was actually dallying with a married man. Faye Dunaway's lead performance is good, not great; she has a lengthy monologue in her hospital room which could be called a mini tour de force, yet her religious exaltations before her adoring believers are rote, and her relationship with her hovering mother (portrayed by Bette Davis) is sketchily drawn. This TV production, once considered eventful programming, now looks puny in scope, with an uncertain direction and variable performances. We often don't know how to take the characters, and the editing is so shapeless that the flashbacks, in particular, fail to make much of an imprint.